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Articles 16821 through 16920 of 23072:
- Manmohan Calls On Zahir Shah (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on “Baba-e-Millat” King Zahir Shah today. The meeting took place in the first floor of the presidential palace in an area referred to as the “Harem Sarai”. Both leaders exchanged pleasantries and the Indian Prime . . .
- Pm Offers Helping Hand To Kabul A Bridge To Entire Region (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
In the first joint statement at the highest level ever since the ouster of the Taliban, India on Sunday formally endorsed Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s vision to restore Afghanistan’s ‘‘historic role’’ as a ‘‘land bridge’’ between Central Asia . .
- Goa Seeks Central Aid To Remove Ship (Hindu, Prakash Kamat, Aug 29, 2005)
M.V. River Princess is an eyesore
Five years after it ran aground, the ship endangers tourism
Previous Government gave removal work to a U.K.-based company
NISD officials to submit report on floating new tenders for its removal
- No Compromise With Terrorism: Pm (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
Visiting Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday jointly condemned global terrorism as a major threat to democracy and declared that there could be no compromise in dealing with this menace head on.
- Blast Rocks Bus Station (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
Palestinian Authority must take steps against terror: Sharon
- Interlinking Rivers: Is It The Solution? (Hindu, V. Rajamani, Aug 29, 2005)
The long-term ecological consequences of interlinking rivers should be evaluated before any such project is taken up in India.
- Ttd Appeals For Rare Books, Manuscripts (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) has appealed to publishers, library authorities, personal collectors
- The Alice I Knew — And Her Indian Commitment (Hindu, Barbara Harriss, Aug 28, 2005)
She was a living example of what we now call `development'
- Indian Pm To Renew Old Bonds On Rare Afghan Trip (Boston Globe, Y.P. Rajesh, Aug 28, 2005)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh begins a rare visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, the first by an Indian premier in nearly 30 years, as New Delhi steps up efforts to deepen historic links hit by years of conflict
- Indian Pm To Renew Old Bonds On Rare Afghan Trip (Boston Globe, Y.P. Rajesh, Aug 28, 2005)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh begins a rare visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, the first by an Indian premier in nearly 30 years, as New Delhi steps up efforts to deepen historic links hit by years of conflict
- Paramount Airways Plans `Interline' Services (Hindu, T. S. Shankar, Aug 28, 2005)
The new player in the civil aviation sector, Paramount Airways, is holding talks with two private sector carriers for providing `interline' services from non-metro routes to the established metro routes from where majority of the players are flying....
- The Emerging Asian Triangle (Dawn, Maqsudul Hasan Nuri, Aug 28, 2005)
That the Pakistan-China friendship is time-tested, enduring and of a strategic rather than tactical or transitory nature cannot be doubted.
- Breast Cancer Spreading Tentacles In Urban Areas (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
Breast cancer has become the most common cancer affecting women in urban India. This startling fact came to light at the press meet prior to the three -day ‘Breast Cancer Summit ‘05’, organised by pharmaceutical major AstraZeneca in Bangalore which ....
- After The Pullout (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 28, 2005)
Israel has completed its evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank far more quickly and easily than virtually anyone — including the government of Ariel Sharon — expected.
- Maoists Name 38 Persons In Hit List (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
The CPI (Maoist) has released a hit list of 38 persons in Nallamala area in the district.
- Music And The Man (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
From being sent to the back row for humming constantly in school, to fending off his numerous female fans, Irshad Khan’s life revolves around music, finds out Smita Bellur.
- The Leopard Has No Vote To Cast (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
The average age of the forest guard in service is 45 years! There is around 50 percent vacancy for the frontline posts in the forest department. Everyone from the politician to the forester is busy raking in profits from the forest. So who protects the ti
- Poetry In Terracotta (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
The terracotta style of temples came about quite accidentally when king Bir Hambir decided to use baked bricks to construct a temple as there was no stone available, in the vicinity, for carving, writes J Kamath.
- Pm Gives Credit Where It Is Due (Tribune, Kishore Gandhi, Aug 28, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s presentation at Oxford raised many a storm in the academic tea cup of India International Centre, New Delhi. Among others, the Cambridge celebrity, Khushwant Singh,
- Let’S Build On Mothers’ Learning (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Aug 28, 2005)
I was asked to speak on the subject, ‘Women in Administration’ organised by the Central Social Welfare Board of India.
- Ongc In Talks For Cuban Oilfields, Says Govt (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
The state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is in talks to acquire two Cuban oilfields, the foreign ministry said.
- Breakthrough In Anti-Sars Vaccine (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
Chinese scientists have claimed a breakthrough in the treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) which killed nearly 800 persons worldwide in 2002.
- Meet The Contemporaries (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 28, 2005)
To begin with, it shall be appropriate to talk of the literary get-together, arranged by J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, on 23rd evening of August, 05 at Tagore Hall Srinagar. The ‘eminent contemporary’, that we were face to face with, was . .
- Taj Nightviewing: Up Approaches Sc To Relax 300m Distance From Taj ...... (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
The Uttar Pradesh Government will approach the Supreme Court seeking to reduce the 300 metres distance fixed for night viewers of the Taj Mahal in Agra on full moon days.
- 'I Am Not Trying To Make General Dyer A Hero' (Deccan Herald, Dipti Nair, Aug 28, 2005)
Nigel Collett, 52, is sort of an accidental tourist in India. Author of the much-talked about biography of General Dyer, The Butcher of Amritsar, Collett would have easily bypassed India had Dyer never committed the carnage at Jallianwala Bagh in 1919. .
- Revolutionary Initiative (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 28, 2005)
A Delhi-based NGO's unique progamme may be the first step in finding a solution to a major health hazard.
- In Praise Of Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
So what, if it is — and this includes its modern face — as the intelligentsia claim, a parvenu city?
- Antics Of Suki (Hindu, MANDIRA MODDIE, Aug 28, 2005)
One of the nicest things that Manjula Padmanabhan's cartoon character Suki does for you is that she makes you laugh uncontrollably at an absurd person doing absurd things:
- White Collars And Gi Joes (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Aug 28, 2005)
The book delivers new meaning to the term corporate ‘warfare’ by citing examples of real military battles as guidelines for business operations.
- A Guarantee To Work? (Hindu, NITIN JUGRAN BAHUGUNA , Aug 28, 2005)
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill has been passed by Parliament.
- Manmohan Singh To Renew Old Bonds On Rare Afghan Trip (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Aug 28, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh begins a rare visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, the first by an Indian premier in nearly 30 years, as New Delhi steps up efforts to deepen historic links hit by years of conflict.
- Could Partition Have Been Made Less Bloody? (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Aug 28, 2005)
It could be one of the most tantalising questions of modern Indian history.
- Rainbows Of Hope (Deccan Herald, U B GITHA, Aug 27, 2005)
Children take us back to times of innocence and naive confidence, and are the true miracles of life
- Reservations Just Have To Go (Deccan Herald, Tsvleen Singh, Aug 27, 2005)
As someone who despises political correctness let me begin by spitting out in unambiguous terms that I believe it is time for reservations for scheduled castes,
- ‘Tiger Should Be Worshipped’ (Tribune, Rashme Sehgal, Aug 27, 2005)
Popularly known as India’s latter-day Jim Corbett and “tiger man”, 87-year-old Billy Arjan Singh has devoted the last 50 years of his life to saving animals. It was due to his advocacy that Indira Gandhi authorised the creation of the Dudhwa National Park
- The Grand Old Ripper (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Despite the derision hurled at her when she first aired her theories, the American crime writer Patricia Cornwell is back on the trail of Walter Sickert, the painter whom she believes was Jack the Ripper — the man who murdered five women in the East. . .
- The Maoist Threat (Statesman, JR MUKHERJEE, Aug 27, 2005)
Marx in the Communist Manifesto broadly spelt out the following major aspects for the Communist Revolution:
- Genesis Of The Dispute (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 27, 2005)
Kashmir dispute has a history and the struggle is based on reason, Mian Manzoor Ahmad responds to the article by Paul Beerman
- Deficit Of Social Capital (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 27, 2005)
A social scientist has suggested in a talk at the HRCP’s Centre for Democratic Development in Islamabad that Pakistan should develop its social capital to eradicate poverty. This is a new concept in Pakistan.
- Gaza Pullout — An Eyewash? (Dawn, Tayyab Siddiqui, Aug 27, 2005)
August 22 was an important day in the history of Israeli-Palestinian relationship.
- Who Will Say ‘No More’? (Dawn, Gary Hart, Aug 27, 2005)
Waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool said to push on,” warned an anti-Vietnam war song those many years ago.
- For Children’S Sake (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
THE Punjab Government’s stand that it is unable to implement the mid-day meal scheme in the primary schools of the state because of paucity of funds cannot be accepted at its face value.
- Our Tragedy Is The Bankruptcy Of Leadership! (Greater Kashmir, M. ASHRAF, Aug 27, 2005)
When leaders lose touch with reality as well as masses, history throws up a fresh bunch of leaders and the earlier ones get swept away. Kashmir may be waiting for the same to happen sooner than later, comments
- Whistle-Blowing On Mdbs (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Aug 27, 2005)
This is a story which for me began in the mid 80s when a friend of mino, working as an Economist with the Asian Development Bank in Manila asked me to visit him
- Tunda Alive In Pakistan (Hindu, Devesh K. Pandey , Aug 27, 2005)
The LeT militant was believed to have died in Bangladesh
Tunda is wanted in 33 cases under the Explosives Substances Act in Delhi and nearby States
Was instrumental in brainwashing Jalees Ansari, who triggered over 40 blasts in Mumbai and Hyderabad. .
- Conferences: Work Or Play? (Business Line, R. Anand, Aug 27, 2005)
Where is the `enjoyment' of benefit, collective or otherwise, in a business conference, asks R. Anand
- Brash. Brazen. Banal!! …… (Daily Excelsior, Dr R L Bhat, Aug 27, 2005)
He won’t be removed. He is my nominee.’ Thus spake the ex-CM, who recently lost a state election, of the Governor, who now rules the state in the name of president under the constitution.
- Guarding The School Gates (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 27, 2005)
Today, as students, my children face the same learning experiences as me 20 years ago.
- Fighting Legacy Of Partition (Daily Excelsior, Aditya Nath Dar, Aug 26, 2005)
In a changing world order after the end of the cold war a number of issues at the international level will prevent India from pursuing its main national interests
- The Price Tag Of Alliance With The Us (Dawn, Mustafa Malik, Aug 26, 2005)
In his Independence Day message President Pervez Musharraf reiterated his vow to defeat terrorists and extremists.
- Governors As Tools (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 26, 2005)
There are very rightly many admirers of Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union Minister Jagmohan in this State.
- No More Blame Game (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 26, 2005)
IT is a measure of the distrust between Islamabad and Kabul that Pakistan has to renew assurances periodically that it is interested in peace and stability in Afghanistan.
- Restructuring Airports (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Should the modernisation of the Mumbai and New Delhi airports be carried out by the Government-owned Airports Authority of India or be farmed out to the private sector?
- In The Land Of Hammurabi (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Aug 26, 2005)
"We the people of Iraq, who in all our forms and groupings undertake to establish our union freely and by choice, to learn yesterday's lessons for tomorrow, and to write down this permanent constitution... "
- Improving Ties With Afghanistan (Tribune, Maj-Gen Himmat Singh Gill (retd) , Aug 26, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Afghanistan can be a turning point for better Indo-Afghan relations. Afghanistan is not just another neighbour, but a buffer to an ever turbulent South Asia where terrorism, religious animosity and civilisational c
- He Wants To Change Latin America's History (Hindu, Richard Gott, Aug 26, 2005)
He's a friend of Fidel Castro, a fierce critic of the war in Iraq, and wants to spread revolutionary fervour throughout South America. Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, has long been a thorn in the side of the U.S.
- River-Linking Hits Milestone: Pm Watching, Up And Mp Shake Hands (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
The Government on Thursday showed it means business on the ambitious river-linking project with Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) - the first of its kind - for connecting the Ken and Betwa rivers.
- What We Like To Believe (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Aug 26, 2005)
Let me make an honest but terrible confession. My deep and abiding interest in history began through reading Combat comics.
- Israeli Pullout From Gaza (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Aug 26, 2005)
NOT much notice has been taken of it in this country but the Israeli pullout from Gaza after 38 years of occupation is an important and hopefully promising development.
- To Accommodate The Curious Mind (Telegraph, NIVEDITA MENON, Aug 26, 2005)
To withdraw the national curriculum framework is to silence dissent against orthodoxies — both that of the left and the right, says Nivedita Menon The author is reader in political science, Delhi University
- Chidambaram Presents Outcome Budget For First Time...... (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Finance Minister P Chidambaram today presented in Parliament the first ever Outcome Budget, which seeks to measure the physical targets achieved on the financial outlays of various Ministries.
- In And Out Of Gaza: Coping With A Depleted Inheritance (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
The recent watershed development in the Middle East brings with it a huge challenge that the Palestinian Authority must now face.
- Mutiny’S Bounty (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Aug 25, 2005)
Each time an Indian filmmaker attempts to recreate the past, the resident bore stands up and yelps, ‘‘But this is not history.’’
- Uphill Climb For Asian Museums (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 25, 2005)
When some of its historical literary records got wet in a storm due to seepage,
- Bandh Karo Bandh Ko (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 25, 2005)
is obviously because of our common past that we in the Indian sub-continent have certain identical traits --- positive as well as negative --- whether we are in this country or in Pakistan or Bangladesh on our two sides.
- Surviving Expensive Oil (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Aug 25, 2005)
The new World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz came on his first visit to Pakistan and has gone back after promising 1.5 billion dollars as development aid for each of the next three years.
- Surviving Change (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Aug 25, 2005)
If there is one thing there can be no doubt about, it is that in recent times the world has been subject to constant and considerable change.
- A Legendary Teacher (Tribune, Darshan Singh Maini, Aug 25, 2005)
A well-known Professor of history during my college days at Khalsa College, Amritsar, was, for over half a century ago, a sturdy, swarthy and Podgy Majha Jat who answered to the name of Prof. Waryam Singh.
- Draw Parallels (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 25, 2005)
The Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip and four of the 120 settlements in the West Bank has been widely welcomed.
- Time To Act (Greater Kashmir, M Y TARIGAMI, Aug 25, 2005)
The unresolved Kashmir issue is an unfortunate legacy of history, which primarily concerns the people of Jammu and Kashmir,
- In The Land Of Women (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 25, 2005)
Every Friday, bleary-eyed from lack of sleep the previous night, I arrive at Howrah to board the Ganadevata Express that leaves at five past six in the morning and reaches my workplace after three hours
- Need For Interfaith Harmony (Dawn, Ghayoor Ahmed, Aug 25, 2005)
No one who is true to the principles of any of the world’s major faiths, which are based on values of truth, justice, piety and decency, can ever be a religious intolerant and bigot.
- The Drama And Trauma Of Gaza (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 25, 2005)
A great media circus is being played out in Gaza as the Israeli army evicts Jewish settlers to return the strip of land to the Palestinians, who were dispossessed in 1967.
- Reviving The Case Against Ms. Mayawati (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 25, 2005)
The Central Vigilance Commission's report to the Supreme Court has exposed the Central Bureau of Investigation's politically-fixed attempt to give a quiet burial to the Taj Heritage Corridor scam case.
- Walking On Two Legs (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Aug 25, 2005)
In all schools three subjects should be taught in the regional language and three should be taught in English
- Fenced In (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Aug 25, 2005)
Suddenly we have discovered to our dismay that the fence that we are setting up to keep the Bangladeshis out could very well keep them in.
- Accounting's Key Role In Human History Is Of Creating Institutionalised Memory (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 25, 2005)
In Chapter XX, titled `Of the tradesman's keeping his books, and casting up his shop', of The Complete English Tradesman, Daniel Defoe writes about a tradesman who could not write, but could still manage `with so many ingenious knacks of his own'.
- The Road After Gaza (Dawn, Robert Malley and Aaron D. Miller, Aug 25, 2005)
ISRAEL’S disengagement from Gaza is a historic event, but for Palestinians and Israelis it will soon be history.
- National Employment Guarantee Scheme — Well-Intentioned, But Poorly Designed (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Aug 24, 2005)
The National Employment Guarantee Bill may not work because the scheme itself is modelled on earlier schemes that failed and the government, having learnt little from experience, still plays the central role.
- Inflation Concerns (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 24, 2005)
As the country moves towards the kharif harvest — less than six weeks to go for the withdrawal of the South-West monsoon — the good news is that inflation is under control.
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